Hi Noah, On 07/01/2008, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:18:45PM +0000, Jon Grant wrote: > > The FSF plan is to solely support Flash, that is a flawed plan IMHO, > > Not really, the FSF's goal is to make sure that you can use any format > (be it open or closed) using free software. If you ask any "normal" > folk you will find that on their relatively short list of requirements > for switching to GNU/Linux is the ability to watch YouTube etc. That > the FSF has the wisdom to see this as important is lucky for us.
You're entitled to your view, personally I'd be thoroughly disappointed if I moved to GNU-Linux and continued to be required to rely on WMA, MS-Word and Adobe Flash proprietary formats. Supporting open standards is definitely what FSF is doing and should continue doing instead of proprietary format support over the long term. > > just like solely supporting MS-Word file format would be. > > But the FSF is not doing this so your arguments are a strawman. The > FSF has plashed Gnash as a priority project, that doesn't mean that > the FSF somehow "endorses" the format. I can't see what your point is or why you think it's a strawman. Are you suggesting FSF are not solely supporting Adobe's Flash format in their Gnash project now? If so that's a great change finally after I suggested they do that for a long time (over the last few years). I am really glad they have changed tack if that is what you were meaning. I can't see any mention of this on their web page though. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ FSF runs the GNU project, which in turn announced+sponsors the Gnash development (formerly GPLFlash) as I understand it. http://www.fsf.org/news/free-java-and-flash.html http://www.linux.com/articles/45154 > > Instead they should develop a multimedia standard for > > audio/video/vector graphics and scripting which is better > > Are you kidding? The FSF has better things to do with it's time and > /my/ donations. Leave stuff like this to the W3C who have, infact, > already done such a thing, namely SVG. W3C have foundered in recent years with regard to multimedia (consider the way Vorbis/Theora has recently been ripped out of HTML5 standard), and SVG is nothing compared to the functionality offered by Adobe's proprietary Flash format. We can't even script audio playback in a browser out of the box. > > and include backwards compatible support for Flash files as an > > option to assist in the migration to an open standard. > > I think this is actually on the roadmap for Gnash. what open standard do you see on the roadmap? I can't spot a mention of one, sorry if I've missed it. Kind regards, Jon -- linkme: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jongrant web: http://jguk.org/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
